 | Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 páginas
...read as a 'metaphysical' poem is read. 'Of Truth' begins with one of Bacon's most striking quotations. "What is Truth?", said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an Answer'. As Anne Righter comments: 'The rifle-shot of this opening, the linle imaginative explosion, is a familiar... | |
 | Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 páginas
...'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally new development." — Alfred North Whitehead "What is truth? Said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer." — Sir Francis "Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers." — Voltaire "It is not... | |
 | B. G. Lovejoy - 2003 - 296 páginas
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 | Francis Bacon - 2003 - 488 páginas
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 | John Carrington - 2003 - 344 páginas
...attractively expressed, but not so much for a coherent philosophy.) The 'Essays' have striking beginnings. - 'What is Truth?' said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. ['Of Truth'] - A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time. ['Of Youth... | |
 | Antonio Cassesse, Lal Chand Vohrah - 2003 - 1068 páginas
...roles. While the search for the truth would proceed, as in a court, by way of presentations by victim 17 "What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer". The complex philosophical discourse generated by the term, recalled in this Biblical reference in Francis... | |
 | Don Watson - 2003 - 216 páginas
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 | F. H. Buckley - 2005 - 260 páginas
...extreme, however. Like Bacon's Pilate, it rejects all commonly accepted beliefs about the world, "\\liat is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer."" An extreme cynicism may also affect a pose of indifference to social norms, including those enforced... | |
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WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of... 
